Legal Form of DESY
The Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is a Foundation under German Civil Law.
DESY is a member of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF).

Representation
The Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is legally represented by the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board, Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, and the provisional Administrative Director, Mr. Christian Harringa act on behalf of the Board.

Value added tax identification number
The value added tax identification number for the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is: DE 118714904

Liability Disclaimer
No liability will be undertaken for completeness, editorial or technical mistakes, omissions as well as for correctness of the contents. Especially no guarantee will be given for completeness and correctness of information obtained through external links.
On our Homepage there are links to other Webpages, which as well have links to pages in the Internet over which we do not have any influence with regard to design and contents. We hereby dissociate ourselves explicitly from all contents available through links to external Internet pages, which violate law in force and do not adopt them as our own.
In case links in our Webpages refer to such contents, we ask to be notified in order to be able to remove them immediately.

Please read the Rules for Preparing and Providing Information in the World Wide Web.Data Protection Provisions:Handling personal information:
DESY takes the protection of personal information seriously. DESY undertakes to protect the private sphere of all persons using its website and to treat any personal information provided in strictest confidence. The information is solely used for the respective purposes given and will not be passed on to third parties. It will be deleted as soon as it has served the given purpose.

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The use of data:
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Questions and comments:
For questions, suggestions or comments on the subject of data protection, please send us an email to the data protection officer at DESY:D4@desy.de